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@antipodean said in US Politics:
It's difficult to not come to the conclusion that the DoJ is compromised by political appointees.
Read today the Republicans are planning to hold an enquiry into the DoJ & FBI if they win a majority in the mid-terms. And this was from the more sensible side of the party.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
It's difficult to not come to the conclusion that the DoJ is compromised by political appointees.
Read today the Republicans are planning to hold an enquiry into the DoJ & FBI if they win a majority in the mid-terms. And this was from the more sensible side of the party.
Which means it will happen, as I can't see the Dems winning the mid-terms. Biden is selling/releasing the strategic oil reserves to bring down gas prices just in time for them (such a cynical, short-term move), but it won't matter.
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I genuinely feel sorry for the bloke but you have to ask if he'll make it to full term
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I genuinely feel sorry for the bloke but you have to ask if he'll make it to full term
He put himself in that position.
What on earth do you have to do to fail the Presidential fit-for-office test? He is obviously incapable of being left unattended. His wife is effectively his 24/7 nurse. It is absurd.
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Politically speaking, the US is a basket case currently and in truth has been for a while. The last three POTUS options have been Hillary, Trump and the Living Dead and you’d have to say it’s probable that all three will be in the mix next time round. Yes I know Biden will almost certainly be dead, but I’d still fancy his chances of seeing off Hillary as the Dems nominee.
Luckily here in the UK we can feel smug and superior having elected Boris.
Wait. What?
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@Catogrande said in US Politics:
Politically speaking, the US is a basket case currently and in truth has been for a while. The last three POTUS options have been Hillary, Trump and the Living Dead and you’d have to say it’s probable that all three will be in the mix next time round. Yes I know Biden will almost certainly be dead, but I’d still fancy his chances of seeing off Hillary as the Dems nominee.
Luckily here in the UK we can feel smug and superior having elected Boris.
Wait. What?
Has a ventriloquist's dummy ever been President before? First time for everything.
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@Catogrande said in US Politics:
Politically speaking, the US is a basket case currently and in truth has been for a while. The last three POTUS options have been Hillary, Trump and the Living Dead and you’d have to say it’s probable that all three will be in the mix next time round. Yes I know Biden will almost certainly be dead, but I’d still fancy his chances of seeing off Hillary as the Dems nominee.
Luckily here in the UK we can feel smug and superior having elected Boris.
Wait. What?
Boris, for all his faults, is not close to needing life support and can talk without his words coming from a teleprompter. Fair enough, some of his words are absolute codswallop, but you can generally follow the thread.
I want to know who is running the US right now, because Biden is most likely lying on the oval office couch waiting for his wife to give him his next set of pills.
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My thoughts were that, rather than looking at Biden as a comparison, we have little to cheer about when we had Boris and the poor old seppos had Trump. Thankfully we haven’t had a PM that could possibly be classified as clinically dead since Alec Douglas-Home. Some have been that effective though
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I genuinely feel sorry for the bloke but you have to ask if he'll make it to full term
Of all the videos, that one I feel is the poorest from the MSM. Who hasn't had their partner help them get an arm into a jacket?
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I genuinely feel sorry for the bloke but you have to ask if he'll make it to full term
Of all the videos, that one I feel is the poorest from the MSM. Who hasn't had their partner help them get an arm into a jacket?
Better?
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@stodders said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I genuinely feel sorry for the bloke but you have to ask if he'll make it to full term
Of all the videos, that one I feel is the poorest from the MSM. Who hasn't had their partner help them get an arm into a jacket?
Better?
Not really - I've seen that happen to cyclists a third his age. It's not like there isn't plenty of evidence of his cognitive decline, it just seems anything that isn't perfect is now seized upon.
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@stodders said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I genuinely feel sorry for the bloke but you have to ask if he'll make it to full term
Of all the videos, that one I feel is the poorest from the MSM. Who hasn't had their partner help them get an arm into a jacket?
Better?
Not really - I've seen that happen to cyclists a third his age. It's not like there isn't plenty of evidence of his cognitive decline, it just seems anything that isn't perfect is now seized upon.
Fair point. He has had a nice break from the limelight recovering from covid. I'm sure he'll come back refreshed and give us some more teleprompter magic moments.
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
Not really - I've seen that happen to cyclists a third his age. It's not like there isn't plenty of evidence of his cognitive decline, it just seems anything that isn't perfect is now seized upon.
Spot on.
It's cheap - like picking on Trump for his physical appearance or inability to walk down a ramp easily. It's bloody annoying, we should be far more concerned about his ability to actually construct a coherent thought rather than a helicopter blowing a jacket arm away.
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@stodders said in US Politics:
He put himself in that position.
To be fair to the bloke, from what I've seen of early stage dementia, the person affected is often (though not always) the person least capable of recognising it...
(I hope my distant armchair diagnosis is entirely wrong, but...)
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2 minutes after catching up on this thread, I went to get changed, tripped over my own trousers, and bent my big toe so far back that I am in absolute agony. I'm 30 years younger than both these duffers, so these things do happen. On the other hand, I wouldn't trust me to run a country.
It's been abundantly clear for many years that both of these guys are mentally completely unequipped for the job. Only the most deluded could argue otherwise - the irony of Trump supporters mocking Biden for being impaired is beyond satire, and vice versa.
The fact that these guys are the best that the Dems & Reps thought they could offer is damning. No decent sized corporation would ever consider appointing a 74 year old CEO. It's a real shame that the US government is a baked-in two-party system, a third party or two could really help right now
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@gibbon-rib said in US Politics:
The fact that these guys are the best that the Dems & Reps thought they could offer is damning. No decent sized corporation would ever consider appointing a 74 year old CEO. It's a real shame that the US government is a baked-in two-party system, a third party or two could really help right now
Wish I could 'like' twice
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@stodders said in US Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I genuinely feel sorry for the bloke but you have to ask if he'll make it to full term
He put himself in that position.
What on earth do you have to do to fail the Presidential fit-for-office test?
It's clear from the last 6 years that if such a test exists, the criteria is pretty much just a pulse
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I genuinely feel sorry for the bloke but you have to ask if he'll make it to full term
Of all the videos, that one I feel is the poorest from the MSM. Who hasn't had their partner help them get an arm into a jacket?
For me, it was less the jacket and more the way he looked completely lost.
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For Andy McCarthy, the raid is not about National Archive records and more a fishing expedition to try to find evidence on Trump related to the Capital riots.
This is what law enforcement commonly does with known criminals/terrorists, not sure if it is appropriate as a tactic to use against an ex-President. Sets a very dangerous precedent..
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@Frank said in US Politics:
For Andy McCarthy, the raid is not about National Archive records and more a fishing expedition to try to find evidence on Trump related to the Capital riots.
This is what law enforcement commonly does with known criminals/terrorists, not sure if it is appropriate as a tactic to use against an ex-President. Sets a very dangerous precedent..
It's a slippery slope, if the FBI get away with it this time then what's to stop them raiding every former president who gets a mob of halfwits to storm the capitol in a half-armed attempt to steal an election?
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